Until bug 57441 and bug 66909 are resolved, it is necessary to alert the user about the need to restart after changing UI language or Region locale. Currently the message says to restart to "use the new preferred language setting". This message makes sense for a language change, but not a region change. The message should be generalized to say something such as "Please restart for the new setting to take effect". Steps: 1) Choose a new region via View>Set Language/Region. The message alerts the user to restart in order to use the preferred language setting.

The View menu is supposed to be revamped and making this bug WONTFIX, but, the feature has not made it into the branch yet.. This bug (the re-wording part) also has l10n impact.

Wouldn't this still be an issue if bug 90080 is resolved? Ultimately we don't want to have a restart message at all, but since bug 66909 has been marked Future, there is a chance that the restart message would need to be incorporated into Prefs. Marking as dependent on bug 90080.

Tao - The user needs to restart the browser to switch Locale or Region, correct?

In "Preferences|Appearance|Content Pack", newly installed packs should appear in the UI like the theme packs do. In "View" menu, it used to be broken but I fixed it in April. However, someone broke when I was gone... Note that this bug becomes invaid once the menuitems in question are removed (by Ben).

Can't we use the same Restart messaging, a we do for Themes currently?

Vishy's comments in bug 90046 - -> ------- Additional Comments From Viswanath Ramachandran 2001-07-09 20:27 ------- No, please do NOT do this on the Netscape 6.1 branch. The pref panel we added for content packs and the language switchign in prefs is still not proven - in fact there have been too many reopens etc of it not working properly. I do not wish to take the risk of removing this and then finding that the pref pan els do not work properly in the shipping product in some case. The right place for this work is the trunk.

Let's see if these menu items are removed from the View menu. If so, will mark it WONTFIX.

Doesn't look like this is getting fixed before the freeze tonight. Pushing out a milestone. Please correct if I'm mistaken.

I just did a quick sanity check to see, whether this is only used by the JS serving the "Set Language/Region" menu item. r=jbetak

rs=mscott

a=dbaron (on behalf of drivers)

checked in; thanks!

mass change, switching qa contact from jonrubin to ruixu.

Verify fixed in branch build 2001-09-07. Current message says: "Please restart Netscape 6 to use the new preferred language or region setting"

Removing ME ---> Todd (Nav PM)